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Tanco Retains Gubernatorial Seat in Capiz

CAPIZ CITY, – Incumbent Governor Victor Tanco will retain his seat in the Province of Capiz.

Jocelyn "Joc-Joc" Bolante is trailing behind Tanco based on election returns from Roxas City and 14 of the province’s 16 municipalities.

Commission on Elections (Comelec) unofficial partial result shows that Liberal Party’s Tanco garnered 136,274 votes compared to Bolante’s 86,139 votes of the local Lakas-Kampi-CMD coalition.

Meanwhile, Esteban Contreras is also poised to become the next vice governor of Capiz. Contreras won with a wide margin of 154,462 votes, while rival Mark Ortiz gathered 107,627 votes.

Comelec has yet to officially proclaim their victory in Capiz.

Capiz has 431,368 registered voters from 473 barangays, 16 towns and one component city. It had 675 clustered precincts from 2,592 established voting centers.

Tigbauan Municipal Election Officer Brings Back-up Results

To Provincial BOC After Failed Transmission

The municipal election officer of Tigbuan, about 23 kilometers from Iloilo City has decided to bring the copy of their election results to the provincial Board of Canvassers (BOC) after failed transmission, Wednesday.

Tigbauan election officer Herminia Badiola said that they had been transmitting the results for more than five hours on May 11, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. After several failed attempts, they called Smartmatic-TIM’s National Support Council (NSC) for technical assistance, she said.

They were advised to bring the copy of the BOC to the Iloilo Provincial Capitol where the current canvassing is being conducted.

Badiola was accompanied by poll watchers and her BOC members in bringing the results to the province.

Garry Trespeces, consolidated canvassing system (CCS) technician assigned in Tigbauan, said they were experiencing poor signals while transmitting.

He said the transmission had no glitches when it was tested by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) a week ago.

The back-up result was opened by provincial election supervisor Atty. Eleizabeth Doronila and duly canvassed. The Tigbauan transmission problem is the first in three days of canvassing.

Defensor Jr. Wins Congressional Seat in Iloilo’s 3rd District

Board Member Arthur Defensor Jr. of the Third District of Iloilo won in his bid for the congressional seat.

The Third District of Iloilo consists of nine towns: Badiangan, Binga-wan, Cabatuan, Calinog, Janiuay, Lambunao, Maasin, Mina, and Pototan.

Arthur Defensor, Jr. has a commanding lead of 89,960 votes over rival Rene villa who garnered 54,117 votes. The whole district had a 78.1 percent voters turnout.

On the other hand, Defensor’s father, Arthur Defensor is slated for proclamation as Iloilo’s next governor as rivals conceded earlier today.

Meanwhile, waiting for the proclamation of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) as winning Board Members are Licurgo Tirador and Manny Gallar.

They will be proclaimed by provincial election supervisor Elizabeth Doronila anytime this afternoon.

Capiz To Announce Two Congressional
Seats Winners

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) Board of Canvassers (BOC) in the Province of Capiz is set to formally announce the winners for the two congressional districts.

Base on complete but unofficial results, Tony Del Rosario won the congressional seat for the First District of Capiz.

Del Rosario won by 69,091 while closest rival, Felipe Barredo has only 43,106 votes.
For the Second District of Capiz, Jane Castro has a commanding vote of 82,363 in eight out of 10 towns. Her only rival, Roberto Lastimoso garnered 38,698, only.

Meanwhile, the 14 municipal candidates for the mayoralty post, and the component city of Roxas waits for Comelec official announcements as winners.

Base on unofficial Comelec results, Angel Alan Celino won as mayor of Roxas City.
As well as the mayoralty post by Roger Flores of Cuartero, Joselito Escuting for Dao, Leslie Warren Benjamin for Dumarao, Felipe Neri Yap for Ivisan, Ethel Jinon of Jamindan, and Wilfredo Borres of Maayon.

Other winners as mayors are Jose Alba for Mambusao, Dante Bermejo for Panay, Katherine Belo for Panitan, Rita Lynn Patricio for Pilar, Esteban Jose Contreras for Pontevedra, Raymund Locsin for Pres. Roxas, Arturo Orosco for Sapian and Mary Andaya for Sigma.

Only the municipalities of Dumalag and Tapaz were not able to transmit their election results to the provincial BOC. /MP